Albert Camus Quotes

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Albert Camus

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: November 7, 1913 - January 4, 1960

Topics

GoodOpinionBelieveFriendsYou

Every dollar of tax imposed on our exchanges in the shape of duties impairs, to that extent, our capacity to meet the severe competition to which we are exposed; and nothing but a system of high protective duties, long continued, can prevent us from meeting it successfully. It is that which we have to fear.

John C. Calhoun

FearCompetitionLongMeetingMeet

I thought that it would be easier to learn that if I worked in motion pictures. So I went to work with one motion picture producer who was developing a color system. This didn't do to me much good. All I did was pick filters for the camera.

John Hench

WorkGoodMeColorThoughtLearn

I was born February 20, 1937 in Munchen as the first child of Sebastian and Helene Huber.

Robert Huber

ChildFebruaryBornFirst Child

I think there needs to be extremes in fashion, and Pucci offers another choice.

Matthew Williamson

FashionThinkChoiceNeedsI Think

I never played politics, I was never a party girl, and I never slept with any of the producers.

Ann Miller

GirlPoliticsPartyNeverPlayed

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

EnthusiasmYouWillFoolishThings

New, unfamiliar, and mysterious threats to our health are scary. At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - where we identify, on average, one new health threat each year - we work around the clock with an approach that prioritizes finding out what we need to know as fast as we can to protect Americans.

Tom Frieden

WorkHealthControlFindingYear

All coffee shops now have WiFi. Why bring a book when you could be wittily attacking some idiot columnist on Twitter, or responding to your date requests, or posting a picture of your foot? All of that is more gripping and immediate and social than books.

Russell Smith

CoffeeBookPictureIdiotYouWhy

We recognise that, with time, every human being will cease being, will only have been. And so we seek to resist time. We rebel against it. We are drawn like lovers to the unreachable past, to imagined memories, to nostalgia.

Mohsin Hamid

MemoriesTimePastRebelNostalgia

Fashion is an incredibly tough, unforgiving industry.

Louise Wilson

FashionToughIndustryUnforgiving

I hate that bookstores are closing. Hate it! What's better than hanging out a bookstore, be it independent or chain, and talking books with people who love books?

Lisa Jackson

LoveHatePeopleBetterTalkingOut

There was a time when I was in the South, singing, and someone came to me before the show and said, 'There's been a threat on your life. Someone had phoned in and said they were going to shoot you if you go on stage.' I was singing 'Chances Are,' and I kept moving so they wouldn't have a shot at me.

Johnny Mathis

LifeTimeMeMovingSingingSomeone

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